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by kc0bfv 9mo ago
I agree - however, that has mostly been a feeling for me for years. Things feel fast enough and fine. This page is a nice reminder of the fact, with numbers. For a while, at least, I will Know, instead of just feel, like I can ignore the
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by kc0bfv 2y ago
As the newcomer to the, very entrenched, block, I think the memristor has a lot of momentum to overcome. In a EE undergrad (2007, so it has been a bit) we spent plenty of time understanding resistors, capacitors, and inductors. We looked
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Disassembling Dalvik(margin.re)
43 points by kc0bfv 2y ago|3 comments
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by kc0bfv 4y ago
Keyoxide and similar are a great way to establish and verify identity across a variety of platforms, and are open to more than just journalists. https://keyoxide.org/
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by kc0bfv 4y ago
Tiddlywiki is fun and useful- especially in environments where they don't let you run anything other than webpages...
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by kc0bfv 4y ago
And to the kids I say - you can make a videogame. That was always compelling to me, although I knew I'd never be a game developer professionally.
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by kc0bfv 4y ago
Programming a computer is a way of thinking. It in some ways involves the same thinking as determining how to break down a mechanical manufacturing process, or parts of team management (sport or industry), or legal arguments, or considerin
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by kc0bfv 5y ago
And that the person making these inquiries is a, "founding member of the House Freedom Caucus"? (Thanks @finite_jest for the news article https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/26/texas-school-books
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by kc0bfv 5y ago
A bit of a follow on from an earlier article: Texas gov knew of natural gas shortages days before blackout, blamed wind anyway https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/texas-gov-knew-o... https:/&#x2
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Natural gas customers in Texas get stuck with $3.4B cold-snap surcharge(arstechnica.com)
37 points by kc0bfv 5y ago|5 comments
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by kc0bfv 5y ago
You should have asked the other patrons.
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by kc0bfv 5y ago
Ok - I like this for some use cases. To restate my understanding so you can tell me I'm wrong if I am: I think that it's still the user's job to make sure that they are skeptical of the provenance of any photos that claim to
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by kc0bfv 5y ago
I can see how then a journalist source could use this to help prove their integrity. And I like that as a solution for that... But - I don't really see that as the issue today. Those outlets that are interested in lying don't ha
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by kc0bfv 5y ago
But this only works if all views of the images employ your client... If I download an image (screenshot if necessary), modify it, and host it myself, how does the system work then? And, unless all users trust only things viewed securely, a
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by kc0bfv 5y ago
In this scenario, it would almost certainly have to be that manufacturers would have to build cameras that cryptographically sign the images and videos. The cameras would have to be able to have that ability, install of the manufacturers d
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by kc0bfv 5y ago
"Once it works properly, you won't need to spend anything at all on marketing... people will flock to it in droves." I agree. However this really remains to be seen. If Waymo got everything working as right as they could it
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by kc0bfv 5y ago
Recent relevant XKCD. Average Familiarity. https://m.xkcd.com/2501/
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by kc0bfv 5y ago
'All three statements using "because" are counterfactual.' No - the definition the article refers to is this: adjective - relating to or expressing what has not happened or is not the case. I used "because" to
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by kc0bfv 5y ago
Sure. "I'm tired because - I stayed up all night playing games", or, "I'm tired - because my child screamed all night long," are more along the lines of what the post suggests are useful, and I can see how they
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by kc0bfv 5y ago
All of the higher level systems map down to something very low level, like a syscall or writing to a specific memory address in a specific pattern. The layers of abstraction between the lowest levels and the highest levels can get pretty d
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by kc0bfv 6y ago
In a cop show, they'd bust everyone they could with the info they have. Then they'd say something publicly like, "the work is only starting", to make the folks they can't bust nervous enough to do something stupid.
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by kc0bfv 6y ago
This was my first time seeing it - looks like there's a small community around it. Their website lists two hosting providers now...
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by kc0bfv 6y ago
Thanks for that - I haven't tried it there... Yup - single file operation was a design goal, but I bet there's a better way to get it working than the hack I used.
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by kc0bfv 6y ago
There are a few versions of tools like this, or similar, available. Here's mine: https://kc0bfv.github.io/WASM-PDF-Combiner/ I used existing wasm compiles of PDF tools. This use of wasm is pretty awesome to me -
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by kc0bfv 6y ago
I used a ShivaPlug and part of it melted. I was glad when I had planned for that by putting it on a low risk surface - it came with a cord option, and I was using that partly because I also don't like the strain it was likely to induc
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by kc0bfv 6y ago
I've resolved several online arguments that started in response to opinions I've shared. The methods the article mentions are methods I've used, usually because they seemed like natural ways to chill the situation. I'm
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by kc0bfv 6y ago
We're up to 5 deaths now. Not to mention those that will result from COVID branching out from this event. Which - while less related - when considering the actions of the instigator are certainly notable. DC has a ton of security, and
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by kc0bfv 6y ago
US postal service? Oh wait...
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by kc0bfv 6y ago
Take your ctrl sequences and go back to Emacs ;-)
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by kc0bfv 6y ago
Indeed, you seem to be correct. It gets a call-out down at the bottom of the page.

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